Boy slain for lack of $680 ransom
From Times Wire Reports
Kidnappers executed a 7-year-old Haitian boy because his family could not afford to pay $680 in ransom, police said.
The body of Schneider Hervil was found Friday in the town of Cabaret, north of the capital, Port-au-Prince, about two weeks after abductors snatched him from his home, police spokesman Frantz Lerebours said.
The specific cause of his death was not known, Lerebours said. No arrests had been made.
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